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still too bright to hear - Lucille Clifton "alabama 9/15/63"

The sometime wonderfulness of other - Lucille Clifton "albino"

walking away from the damage he has done - Lucille Clifton "album"

their name fierce on the planet - Lucille Clifton "amazons"

begin with a spear of salt - Lucille Clifton "begin here"

and honey was heaped upon my head - Lucille Clifton "beloved"

fearful in the garden - Lucille Clifton "the birth of language"

their hunger entering our loneliness - Lucille Clifton "blake"

quills erect among the leaves - Lucille Clifton "blake"

the lip of our understanding - Lucille Clifton "blessing the boats"

splintered into angels - Lucille Clifton "brothers: 8 '........is God'"

watching from the water - Lucille Clifton "california lessons. 1, geography"

guard your language - "california lessons. 2, history"

although she knows no enemy - Lucille Clifton "the coming of the fox"

arrive at the house of lightning - Lucille Clifton "consulting the book of changes: radiation"

where is the light of one leaf falling? - Lucille Clifton "consulting the book of changes: radiation"

our best secret - Lucille Clifton "crabbing"

they smile, meaning us - Lucille Clifton "crabbing"

i am grown old and full of days - Lucille Clifton "dancer"

Came to clutch my dreams at night - Lucille Clifton "david has slain his ten thousands"

who gathered the five smooth stones - Lucille Clifton "david, musing"

the name of the first was hunger - Lucille Clifton "david, musing"

the name of the second was faith - Lucille Clifton "david, musing"

the fifth was the stone of my regret - Lucille Clifton "david, musing"

Gathering each perfect ash - Lucille Clifton "the dead do dream"

squat in the hungry desert fingering stones - Lucille Clifton "dear fox"

dry mornings and bitter nights - Lucille Clifton "dear fox"

enter the dream to be real - Lucille Clifton "the death of crazy horse"

walk my bones and my heart - Lucille Clifton "the death of crazy horse"

never defeated in battle - Lucille Clifton "the death of crazy horse"

leaving the edges of me - Lucille Clifton "the death of fred clifton"

In the passion of his praise - Lucille Clifton "dog's god"

silent in the long approach - Lucille Clifton "down the tram"

favorite child of the universe - Lucille Clifton "the earth is a living thing"

latticed against all light - Lucille Clifton "11/10 again"

have learned the taste of blood - Lucille Clifton "enemies"

In a need beyond desire - Lucille Clifton "1st picture searching for the ox"

baggage cold in a stranger's hand - Lucille Clifton "from the cadaver"

galloping down the highway of my life - Lucille Clifton "hag riding"

the long slide out of paradise - Lucille Clifton "I. at creation"

who he insisted he was - Lucille Clifton "I. at Jonestown"

imagine his growl filling the wind - Lucille Clifton "imagining bear"

in the mean time that split apart with the atom - Lucille Clifton "in the meantime"

burned you into little shells and stars - Lucille Clifton "in the same week"

mourn every necessary bit - Lucille Clifton "in the same week"

will become her own ghost - Lucille Clifton "incantation"

opened once and was gone - Lucille Clifton "jasper texas 1998"

done with this dust - Lucille Clifton "jasper texas 1998"

only the solitary fox watching my window - Lucille Clifton "leaving fox"

another star chooses - Lucille Clifton "leda 2"

of no known kingdom - Lucille Clifton "leda 2"

who knew the truth but didn't always choose it - Lucille Clifton "lee"

your mother's face turned to water - Lucille Clifton "memory"

the only mercy is memory - Lucille Clifton "the message of fred clifton"

the only hell is regret - Lucille Clifton "the message of fred clifton"

Alone in the wrong image - Lucille Clifton "mirror"

Close our eyes against regret - Lucille Clifton "mirror"

all of them carrying yesterday - Lucille Clifton "the mississippi river empties into the gulf"

in which the past is always flowing - Lucille Clifton "the mississippi river empties into the gulf"

whose only sin was dying - Lucille Clifton "morning mirror"

loosened in the mirror - Lucille Clifton "morning mirror"

the banners of regret - Lucille Clifton "my lost father"

no future in those clothes - Lucille Clifton "my dream about being white"

Moved among the days - Lucille Clifton "My Mama moved among the days"

What she touched was hers - Lucille Clifton "My Mama moved among the days"

the saddest lies are the ones we tell ourselves - Lucille Clifton "1994"

into the winter of a cold and mortal body - Lucille Clifton "1994"

Ends in the folding of hands - Lucille Clifton "9th picture returning to the origin back to the source"

no planet stranger - Lucille Clifton "note, passed to superman"

lapping them into rust - Lucille Clifton "one year later"

brushing against the shadows - Lucille Clifton "one year later"

followed her off into vixen country - Lucille Clifton "one year later"

iron understands time is another name for God - Lucille Clifton "rust"

ribbon of hunger and desire - Lucille Clifton "scar"

edge of before and after - Lucille Clifton "scar"

the black blood under the earth - Lucille Clifton "shadows"

born in the mountains of the moon - Lucille Clifton "shadows"

dreaming a small boat through centuries of water - Lucille Clifton "shadows"

weaving garments of neglect - Lucille Clifton "shadows"

the thread running forever in shadow - Lucille Clifton "shadows"

Like the ghost of all my desires - Lucille Clifton "6/27/06"

Swallowing so much love - Lucille Clifton "6/27/06"

So in love with mortals - Lucille Clifton "sorrows"

Amid such choruses of desire - Lucille Clifton "sorrow"

Attach themselves as scars - Lucille Clifton "sorrow"

the fox came every evening - Lucille Clifton "telling our stories"

my fear trapped me inside - Lucille Clifton "telling our stories"

Fame and its inevitable tomorrow - Lucille Clifton "them and us"

Between starshine and clay - Lucille Clifton [untitled]

A tongue blistered with smiling - Lucille Clifton [untitled]

Calling from every mirrored thing - Lucille Clifton [untitled]

The surprised and ungrateful eye - Lucille Clifton [untitled]

For want of tenderness - Lucille Clifton [untitled]

if i am not singing to myself - Lucille Clifton "what manner of man"

stands in the tents of history - Lucille Clifton "what manner of man"

on fire a hundred years - Lucille Clifton "winnie song"


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